The Prayer Book of St. Thomas More, which he had with him in the Tower of London as he awaited his execution. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University When beauty and ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...

In the center of the room, under glass, a Hebrew Bible lies open to the Book of Psalms. Gold leaf glimmers on the borders; red dragons grasp a blue shield while green and blue birds perch on curling ...